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One puzzling phenomenon is the enthusiasm for the EU I have
One puzzling phenomenon is the enthusiasm for the EU I have witnessed in my highly educated European friends. Once I carefully explained the damage c...

Silk Road II It’s quite the thing to retrace Marco Polo’s
Silk Road II It’s quite the thing to retrace Marco Polo’s route to China. Most recently this was done in the early 80s by a couple of hardy adve...

If yesterday was a fiasco of missed connections and efforts
If yesterday was a fiasco of missed connections and efforts wasted, today was one of despair. For a few minutes anyway. I don’t know if this is due ...

Speaking of free trade… The free traders have an ambitious
Speaking of free trade… The free traders have an ambitious agenda ahead of them in the next term of congress. A couple of agreements, the Trans-Pa...

There is something about this big march to save the planet from
There is something about this big march to save the planet from the baleful effects of climate change that is sad. It isnt that there is nothing peop...

I don’t know if I can go as far as some contrarians to embrace
I don’t know if I can go as far as some contrarians to embrace the notion that US policy intentionally lifted China out of poverty in a Marshall-pla...

What Lazonick has uncovered is the present-day American validation
What Lazonick has uncovered is the present-day American validation of Piketty’s central thesis that the rate of return on investment generally excee...

For those of us who have been predicting that the Euro would be a
For those of us who have been predicting that the Euro would be a calamitous failure since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, mostly becaus...